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Animated Avatar

Voki

Blogs

Edublogs
Embed Voicethread into Edublogs (Video)

Calculators

Cataloging

As listed in “social cataloging” from Wikipedia:
“some of the more notable social cataloging applications include:
For books: LibraryThing, Shelfari, Goodreads, Anobii
For music: Discogs, Rate Your Music
For movies: Flixster
For scholarly citations: Bibster, CiteULike, Connotea, refbase“

Citation

easybib
Citation Machine (Four Citation Styles)
Zotero (Foxfire Add-on)

Educational Games

File Storage

Box
Google Docs
Scribd

Flash Cards

Knowtes
Openflashcards
quili
quizlet

Flowcharts

Images / Photos

Argility post by Laura Milligan: 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images.
Google / Life Images

Notetaking

Fifty Ways Wikis for Notetaking
Thinking Maps

Online Presentations

Photos / Images

Argility post by Laura Milligan: 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images.
Google / Life Images

RSS

Creating Custom RSS News Feeds

Slideshows

PictureTrail
Slide
SlideShare

Screencasts

Math Screencasts How To Make Mathcasts
SlideCasts

Start / Home Page

igoogle
My Yahoo!
Pageflakes

Study Strategies

Surveys

Survey Monkey Survey Monkey Instructions (pdf) Survey Monkey Video Tutorials

Timelines

Video

Annenberg Media
Brain Pop
edublogs.tv
Green Energy TV
Internet Archive
National Geographic Videos
NFB: National Film Board of Canada
Open Culture: University Video Collections
PBS: American Experience
PBS: Car of the Future
PBS: The Elegant Universe
PBS Videos (Google Videos)
Schooltube
VideoToolbox
Voicethread
Embed Voicethread into Edublogs (Video)

Website Builder

Widgets

Snipperoo
SpringWidgets
YahooPipes

Wikis

(Recommended by Barrow County School District)
wetpaint
wikispaces
pbwiki